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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Spear Cuts Through Water got quite a bit of recognition, but I want to be able to talk about it with random people on the street.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Iliad also narrates all those deaths from a thoroughly human viewpoint (which I love). As Achilles blows through her aristeia in Wrath Goddess Sing and ascends to new reality temperatures, their names and stories stream through her but her perspective is a bit more godlike and ravenous.

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Penny Chase @pastagal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@mayadeane.bsky.social After having read the E-book years ago I've been looking for a physical copy of Wrath Goddess Sing. I finally found a copy. Fresh from the shelves of a Salvation Army. This book is easily one of the best books I've ever read and I'm so glad to now also own a physical copy.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm a big fan of Helen! she's kind of been a kaleidoscope with a million different interpretations (I love Odyssey Helen as a powerful witch who gives everyone bronze age valium before they talk about their trauma, but I also love Iliad Helen who wants to make sure her war is cool).

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

it depends on the myth variant. Stesichorus wrote anti-Helen poetry (like Sappho & others) and fell blind. A deified Helen appeared to him in a dream demanding good PR, so he wrote a poem where Helen never went to Troy (a phantom went with Paris) and instead spent ten years in Egypt on the beach.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I AGREE but also (& without calling out anyone in particular) I think people seriously underestimate their own capacity to imagine divinity, and it's a skill issue

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

reason 8 trillion Wrath Goddess Sing whipped & more people should read it

post reading "I've seen a lot of people bemoan the notion that fantasy authors and TTRPG devs can't conceptualize the divine as anything other than as societal constructs anthropomorphized.

... sorry to say-

Neither can you. None of us can. It's not the 16th century anymore."

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

Periodic reminder that Wrath Goddess Sing is freaking amazing and you need to read it. Or get the audiobook, which is doubly amazing thanks to the tremendously talented narrator @katrafiy.bsky.social.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Odyssey discourse notwithstanding, I sadly remain the only soul courageous enough to put trans Achilles into the world.* * except various ancient Greek painters, Frans Francken the Younger, Pietro Paolini, Nicolas Poussin, Angelica Kauffmann, Philibert Vigier, and sundry Girl With Sword enthusiasts

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am practically as old as Rocky Horror and thus need lower back support.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The masses appeared to me in a dream and demanded my take on Rocky Horror. Upon waking, I had three pressing questions which I refer to the Internet: 1. Are the masses trying to lure me into discourse? 2. Is this a trap? 3. Do corsets provide effective lower back support?

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I quite like co-writing. in fact I'm the Zhuge Liang of collaborative writing. or the Diomedes. (or the jelly.) (or the macaroni.) (help me pick my metaphor.)

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 13/08/2026

We just wrapped 5 days shooting my new short “Cyleen”. It stars myself, was co-written by @mayadeane.bsky.social (Wrath Goddess Sing), has a trans director and DP, and features a bunch of my actor friends from #TheChairCompany and classes around the city! Will have much more to share soon!

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bewilder by Bryce Oakley: www.awin1.com/cread.php?aw... Last First Kiss by Julian Winters: www.awin1.com/cread.php?aw... Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane: www.awin1.com/cread.php?aw...

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

there are so many small-name Amazons to choose from

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yeah, I thought it made an interesting case.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I would never impugn the genius of the definitely historical dude Homer who definitely didn't draw on an existing body of mythology that some people definitely don't think was shaped by West Asian and Eastern Mediterranean cultural links stretching back into the second and third millennium

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

then yes, Xena receives mythology with as little reverent intent to authenticate it and neatly box it all up as, say, Euripides. the Athenian poets would absolutely have put the Trojan War and Julius Caesar in the same overarching adventure if they'd only had the chance.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

(in reality, of course, the chatbot interfaces are a huge problem because what they do and what they purport to do is different in subtle but brain-breaking ways. and this is not getting into the economics they're embedded in. these are both areas where I have less useful wisdom to clamor for.)

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I am resisting the impulse to serious post about reception

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the people clamor for my wisdom on large language models. what do I think the discourse overlooks? Large language models are maps of how language is used. Setting aside the chatbot interfaces, it's useful to ask, "What are maps good for? What can't they do well? What choices do they take away?"

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

you can't make Blazing Saddles today because it has in fact been made and people would say "this is the script for Blazing Saddles, wtf." This is also my theory of reception. The Odyssey is right there; read it! You won't regret it! BUT: people have been remixing the Odyssey since it was written.

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Homer, Odyssey, Book 1, line 1

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

said Joseph story exists in manuscript but probably isn't the next book out (it really needs a splashy hit to pave the way for it)

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED BOOK wrath goddess sing absolutely ruled

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the multitudes keep asking me about the Amarna period. look, I won't pretend the Amarna period has the most dramatic chariot warfare. but it probably has the most interesting chariot warfare.

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Steel-capped crocs (Claire) @cznz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That said while we are Odyssey posting: once again I rec Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane which fucking ruled and did not get the positive attention it deserved.

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 23/07/2026

if you likes the odyssey, do read wrath goddess sing for the real skinny on achilles

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

next Odyssey retelling needs Helen dosing everyone with happy-while-you-talk-trauma drugs from Egypt, then ensuing guided talk therapy. Honestly would have fit well into the Nolan movie--if Nolan had let Helen be weirder, her marriage a strange postapocalyptic partnership to stem the bleeding.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the internet taught me one worthwhile thing: instead of an essay, write a list, with an epigram after each entry. your epigrams will force other people to write exegetic essays. this is delegation.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

you should; someone needs to say "yes, it exists, and it's often very good." and often quite worth engaging with, per my infamous love of Tolkien.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

You all may not have heard since I talk about it so rarely, but I wrote a novel. It's very good. Of course I would say that, but if I hadn't written it, I would still be obliged by hater's code to admit that that that uppity-ass quirk chungus bitch actually wrote a great novel.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

yes. what he's insanely good at is narrative design (all that stilted, expository dialog does prime people with much of the information they need, it could just be done a lot more elegantly and still work) and quite nice visual/environmental storytelling.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

he almost literally says, "we are the sea people! we destroyed civilization with our violation of hospitality law!"

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the multitudes demand my verdict on Nolan's Odyssey! Good: the ships, sets, weapons, & Agamemnon. And an Actual Take on Odysseus as an arch-violator of xenia who merited the Bronze Age Collapse. Bad: the armor, the lack of Helen drug trips, how woman and goddess was nerfed. 15 minutes too short.

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🐈‍⬛Cate o’ Nine Tails 🐈‍⬛ @kallaipdx.com · 17/07/2026

Not sure about director, but I know I only want the Iliad on film (again) if it’s actually Wrath Goddess Sing.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

ALSO TRUE. but also: most of the dialog needed more cooking. I DID like the informality of it -- "my dad," etc -- and Penelope had a few good "we should probably burn the house down with all of them in it" lines.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This movie merits all of the following: 1. several exasperated eyerolls 2. acknowledgment of its real artistic merit 3. really thoughtful reviews as a reception 4. dozens of inevitable cultural criticism and political economy thinkpieces I will not provide any of this beyond minimal thoughts.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm less sold on any one translation. I like Wilson's for a lot of things, but the decision to simplify combat terminology in translation took something away. (I also have Wrong Opinions about how to handle Homeric reimaginings of bronze age warfare; imo, chariot use in combat is implied but hazily)

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think the Iliad is fantastic. Way more ambivalent about war than the Classics reception is, which is really saying something. I like Bachvarova's argument that Greeks and non-Greek Anatolians used Iliad performances to negotiate a sense of shared history/ancestry out of Bronze Age memories.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

not a scholar either, but that was one of my quibbles too. sure, the Odyssey certainly can't have been *written down* earlier than that for reasons of Greeks (re)adopting writing around then, but the oral tradition would likely be older, at least if one accepts Mary Bachvarova's line of argument.

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